Amid the recent news of a U.S. citizen being asked to turn over his phone to authorities at a border crossing, Sophia Cope of the Electronic Frontier Foundation has tips on digital civil liberties.
Related, “Attorney representing a student protester detained by federal immigration agents”
When a man in Michigan was heading home on Sunday from a family vacation in the Caribbean, he was stopped in the Detroit Airport. Federal officers, border agents, detained him, interrogated him and pressured him to hand over his cellphone. The man is a U.S. citizen. He’s a civil rights and criminal defense attorney, and among his clients is an activist who has been charged in connection to a pro-Palestinian protest at the University of Michigan.
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Or you know, fix the country? Isn’t that a better way to deal with this problem instead of band-aiding every single thing?
Ohmigod! I never thought of that!
Such a simple solution!
I’ll just go ahead and do that and then everything will be okay again!
I agree, so what are the exact steps I can take to fix the country?
Have you tried turning it off and back on again?
We’re about to.
Another Civil War you say? Why I think that’s a right fine idea!
If you have an interest in fixing the country then you definitely need to have a burner phone system because you’re the exact kind of person they’re going to single out (like, this article was inspired by an ttorney for a pro-Palestine protester having his phone seized when he re entered the country)
ha ha ha. I’ve spent the last 24 years seeing this country loose it’s mind. People either want authoritarianism or delude themselves into thinking their guy will do anything. Far too much popcorn and circuses. Far too many people would rather burn the planet down now then risk their economy. Far too many people isolated from what’s really going on.